Survivor Samoa
 

New season of Survivor starts tomorrow.

20 survivors this time around. Hoping for a final 2 instead of a final 3.

They've been pimping up one of the players,



as an evil mastermind in the previews so far. I'd like to see the person go far only to get taken out just before the final 2/final 3.

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I vote Betsy or Shannon go home first from there profiles and photos they fit the MO of first night eliminations from the shows history

Looking forward to this.

Love watching Survivor in HD.

Somoa?

I guess so. I went to the web site.... do they even have any other contestants besides that guy?

:+1:

It sometimes makes you wonder how they can make a show in HD in the middle of nowhere, but some professional sports telecasts are still in standard definition.

Yes, yes! Can we please get a thread title fix to "Samoa"? :p

Hell, I thought we were talking about surviving an appetizer......

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Absolutely not. It's awesome.

I wil be watching as usual. I can't wait to see what kind of antics this guy Russel pulls out.

The preview clip is worth watching



I say he lasts 2 episodes, tops.

Not bad for a first episode. This Russell guy already got called out though, so the evil mastermind tactic won't work that well for him. Everybody is already becoming aware of his methods.

That being said, Week 1 ends exactly how he wanted it to, so he is up to a good start.

Looks like an interesting season so far. Shambo?!

She already annoys me after only one episode.

Where do they find some of these people?

Audition tapes?

Survey says: 24!

Russell is a jacktacular fucksnort.

And I love it!

I know we're only one episode in, but it looks like they may be jacking the difficulty level up a bit this season. Can you imagine the torn up skin/splinters that must have some from sliding down those ramps? Ouch.

He should have shut his piehole at tribal council cause that would've likely bought him a few more weeks.

I don't think Russell's going to last long, but he does bring something unique -- In 19 seasons, I don't recall a player who was already financially set for life who just decided to be a huge jerk and execute a scorched earth strategy against his own tribe, basically for shits and giggles because he doesn't care about the money. Again, don't think he'll last long as a couple of people already sort of have him pegged, but it could be interesting for a few weeks.

the best is going to be the reunion show when all those girls hear him in the first episode calling them dumbasses.

i figure there is absolutely no way he wins...they have done a good job as of late edting the first couple episodes to confuse the guesses.

it would make for the best final tribal council ever if he got that far though.

Russell claims that his purpose is to show folks how easy it is to win. Instead what he's going to show them is how easy it is to pull a Stephanie and have your whole tribe gone by the merge...

In the 1st episode he stated he wasn't interested in winning. IIRC, he wanted to show how stupid the people are and how easily they can be controlled. I think destroying his tribe would be mission accomplished.

Already someone sent home due to medical.

Lots has happened this season already... shaping up to be probably one of the bigger drama seasons of Survivor.

Russell and Ben are the reasons why I try and stay away from reality shows, talk about major, major assholes.

Does anyone really believe that Russell (foa foa) and Ben aren't actors? C'mon, everybody is smarter than that!

I think they're much like the young doctor who won Big Brother. They're really that full of themselves. If you've never run into someone like that in real life, consider yourself blessed.

Russell is losing his grip already, I predict he falls apart at the seems

It's interesting that he gave in the group and voted for Ben at the end.

I just caught up on the episodes this morning, but was a little bothered by the winning shot in the basketballish challenge two shows ago. It looked like B-movie editing. We saw the girl shoot, a reaction shot from someone else, then the ball go in. It looked fake. Maybe they didn't have cameras setup to follow the ball, or to use a wide shot, but, why not?

I think it was actually really smart on his part.

He knew Ben was a goner, but if he votes Ashley the rest of the group knows the second vote was his, which screw him over.

Jaison has Russell pegged and is a really strong competitor. I am looking forward to the inevitable Russell meltdown...

Russel probably realized that the girls had the vote this week and Jaison wasn't going to be swayed with his vote. I do believe Russell was right though, if they didn't get rid of Ben its even with the girls and that will mean tougher to get your way in tribal council.

They'll eventually win a challenge....right?

Awesome tribal council tonight

I'm still enjoying Survivor after all these years. And, actually rooting for Russell a little bit. :)

Yeah, I find myself liking Russell too. And that was a great tribal council. Loved watching cocky Ben Affleck talk down to everyone, only to slowly realize that he was going home with each vote revealed.

The funny thing was he was cool with the 4 votes, assuming it was all the old tribe, but when he got the 5th vote that was great.

Yep. Loved the progressive looks of surprise / incredulousness.

19 seasons and I'm still a total sucker for the old:

* cocky player mouthing off at tribal with total confidence of security
* smug expression while receiving votes from opposition alliance
* slow dawning of "oh shit" expression when player gets more votes than the number of players in opposition alliance

Happens once or twice a season and is gold Jerry gold every damn time...

I'm surprised no one is talking about Russel playing the immunity idol there while Eric didn't. In so many seasons we always say it is crazy to not use the idol if you think there is even a chance of getting blindsided (as we saw with Eric). Here Russell used the idol without having reason to..

I think that was a good play, far better then going home with the idol unplayed. I'm concerned if that is going to mean Russel's play will change now without that confidence of having that behind him or if he might end up on the block himself

My wife and I discussed this. We both thought it was a good move since you see so many people go home with an idol. Plus he showed it to a lot of people and may have felt he was in trouble.

It was a good play once he blabbed to pretty much everyone that he had the idol. Whether his "I don't even need to be subtle because everyone here is so stupid" strategy was a good one is another story -- though it did seem like he had Laura lined up for the kill before the immunity challenge.

Not sure why he felt compelled to show everyone his idol.

I think that wasn't necessarily a bad play if his hope was to gain trust and try to get the other person to trust him perhaps. But the problem was once Laura pretty much indicated enough that she wasn't going play along, he should have realized he needed to change up. He can't then go to someone else and say he hadn't shown it to anyone else since he should expect Laura would talk about it. I think that was a mistake and undermined perhaps any hope he had at getting some people to perhaps side with him.

I think he was smart to play it for credibility sake, as well. He can go back to camp now and say he showed it to everyone because he knew he was going to burn it, so he wanted to see how everyone would react to it. That makes him look more like a strategist than desperate.

Despite the "scenes from next week" (which are almost always misleading, anyway), I'm hoping he can make it through next week. I'm guessing he can keep Shambo and the engineer guy together and get rid of one of the girls, as Shambo hates them and the engineer recognizes that they are completely aligned.

Same. Russell has become one of my all-time favorite players and I'd love to see him make it into the final 2 just to see how the jury is with him.

Eric, on the other hand, annoyed the hell out me from the beginning. Really glad to see him go out the way he did.

I have never watched Survivor.

I would, however, watch Survivor: Somalia.

Yeah there was so much chaos going on right up until the vote, I don't blame him for using it. It's probably the craziest last 5 minutes I've ever seen in Survivor, everybody was swinging from one person to the next and it could easily have been Russell.

It better not be the 90210 chicks going to the end, they're pretty annoying. They actually don't do ANYTHING.

Just...awesome. One of the greatest moments in Survivor history.

That was outstanding